Moscow, 1991. Flickr/Ron Knight. Some rights reserved.The death of the Soviet Union in 1991 was a reality, despite rumours that it didn't happen at all. But it was a ...
As countries begin to introduce vaccine mandates, images purporting to show protests in areas with COVID-19 restrictions have routinely made the rounds on social media, though many pictures were ...
Editor’s note: Frida Ghitis, a former CNN producer and correspondent, is a world affairs columnist. She is a weekly opinion contributor to CNN, a contributing columnist to The Washington Post and a ...
Two men who stood shoulder to shoulder with Boris Yeltsin to defy the attempted hardline coup in Moscow in 1991 look back on the critical hours when Russian democracy was saved - and share their ...
MOSCOW -- Former Soviet dissidents are crying foul after being denied permission to commemorate the failed August 1991 coup that led to the fall of the Soviet Union, declaring Moscow city officials' ...
As dawn broke on Aug. 19, 1991, tanks and armored cars converged on Moscow and Soviet citizens received the stunning news that President Mikhail Gorbachev had been overthrown in a coup. At 6:06 a.m., ...
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Nuclear fear and forgotten strength: What Metallica’s 1991 Moscow concert still teaches
Just weeks earlier, hardline communists had attempted a coup to save the Soviet Union. Tanks rolled through Moscow. The world watched nervously. The nuclear superpower that had defined the Cold War ...
1.6 million – that’s the number of attendees that came to watch Metallica's juggernaut of a concert in Moscow, in 1991. The Soviet Union was in crisis. A month before Metallica's show, a group of ...
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